Example sentences of "[pers pn] wait for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 2 | I , I , I , if I may go on an and er make some other comments on it i is that appropriate or should I wait for that are we still talking about the by-pass ? |
| 3 | I wait for fifteen minutes . |
| 4 | Now , am I waiting for these today or ? |
| 5 | Duck or diver , it had dived , and , though I waited for long minutes , it did not appear again . |
| 6 | I waited for further transmissions . |
| 7 | I waited for further explanation and none came . |
| 8 | I waited for twenty minutes , and the numbers advanced only to three hundred and ninety-three , so I wandered off to the station newsagent 's to look at girlie magazines . |
| 9 | Marius and I waited for twenty minutes and then walked into Mike 's room , only to find him snoring loudly , unconscious . |
| 10 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 11 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 12 | Hospitals kept them waiting for scarce beds , but sat on acres of land in the middle of booming cities . |
| 13 | ‘ Can you wait for five minutes ? ’ he asked . |
| 14 | And you wait for other people an that and and you do n't leave that 's all I wo n't do that again , . |
| 15 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 16 | Are you waiting for this . |
| 17 | But she must wear a special cap to protect her head while she waits for more surgery . |
| 18 | It was n't really surprising therefore that she was wound tighter than a spring with suppressed energy as she waited for Ace to return . |
| 19 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 20 | She waited for three rings , but she knew that Hugh would n't pick up a machine that might buzz and shout ‘ Pronto ! ’ at him . |
| 21 | She waited for this to happen . |
| 22 | She waited for some minutes on a platform , a train came and she would have got into it if that had been possible . |
| 23 | The week 's work was done and she waited for another hard week to start in this ugly , holiday dress . |
| 24 | You 've got it later on in the agenda , Arthur , can we wait for that one ? |
| 25 | And we wait for one of the small army of art students employed to take our work away . |
| 26 | We waited for two hours , but nobody came . |
| 27 | We waited for two minutes before the combined strength of thirty-five pounds of EP-12 plastic explosive tore the car apart . |
| 28 | We waited for three hours and did not move . |
| 29 | I sat beside her and we waited for those who had not yet arrived . |
| 30 | We waited for ten more minutes , and then we hurried on . |